Am Dienstag, den 30.09.2008, 06:25 +0530 schrieb partha chowdhury:
> henry ritzlmayr wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > should it be possible to scp a partition with this command:
> >
> > scp /dev/sda7 backupserver:/backup/sda7.img
> >
> > I always get "not a regular file" - which is a clear and understandable
> > error, but my googling tells me that some people are doing this - and it
> > seems to work - at least at their systems.
> >
>> i think there are two simple ways to do this :
>> 1> mount /dev/sda7 under say /mnt and scp -r /mnt <destination>
> 2> and rsync - i think it is most simple and suitable for backup through
> ssh.
If the content of /dev/sda7 is a filesystem I agree, but if its a raw
device (databases, or xen DOM-Us), then this won´t work.
What I am trying to figure out is, why does this work on some (not mine)
systems?
Henry